Rob Hudson wrote: > When you start a program w/o the '&', then inside the program you > Ctrl-Z it, then outside the program you 'bg' it. While you're in that > same shell, you can 'fg' it to get back into the program. Is there a > way to 'fg' that program from a different shell/term?
No. Unix has never had a mechanism to reparent processes. Sounds like a fun project, though... (-: > Strangely on my woody box, man fg or bg or jobs turns up nothing. Try "info bash" or "man tcsh". > One example: If I'm running mutt remotely on my home computer, then > come up and want to take control of the mutt process w/o killing it > and starting it again (if I'm composing an email?), I'd like to steal > it from the terminal I left it open on. Note that emacs lets you open multiple "frames" on different displays. Kind of similar to what you wanted, but only for emacs and X11. The command is M-x make-frame-on-display. Search the emacs info pages for "multiple displays". You have to know what you're doing wrt X security. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
